Acer Ferrari Netbook coming to Japan later this month

ACER has officially launched the ‘hot one’! Yes, we are talking about the red hot Ferrari One netbook. This F1-inspired netbook has red color on its lid (that obvious) and reg hinges with a mighty horse badge on its Royal Red lid.

Acer also made sure that this netbook packs more power than the conventional netbooks that you see around. After all, it is a “Ferrari netbook“. It has

• AMD Athlon Neo X2 L310 (1.20GHz)
• 11.6-inch screen
• 1366×768 resolution
• 160GB HDD
• 4GB RAM
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
• Weight 1.5kg.

4GB RAM, gratifying, we are sure for many people, but 160GB HDD sounds a bit less as most of the current netbooks are coming with 250GB capacity. But, we are not complaining as it can be easily swapped with a 500GB HDD. Price is still not yet known, but this Ferrari Mini Laptop will hit Japanese market on November 27 and other parts of the month some days after that.

Acer Ferrari One Review

Acer Ferrari One quick review

Apart from sporting stunning and sleek looks, Acer Ferrari One netbook is based on AMD’s Congo platform. Some people may regard it as ultrathin notebook, but we prefer to call it a netbook with lots of muscle-power.

Its AMD Athlon X2 L310 processor works at 1.2GHz clock speed and features 1MB of L2 cache. It has Radeon HD 3200 integrated graphics which comes with up to 2048MB of HyperMemory or to be precise it has 256+128MB of dedicated memory and up to 1663MB of shared system memory. The netbook/notebook is equipped with 2GB of DDR2 667/800 RAM ( upgradable upto 4GB as it has two SO-DIMM slots). This is unlike most of the netbooks that can have only upto 2GB RAM and sport only one SO-DIMM slot.

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Acer Ferrari One is a Netbook or Mini-Notebook?

Acer has unveiled their new red hot Ferrari One netbook, which resembles the Aspire Timeline 1810T or 1410 (Aspire One 751H + Intel ULV processor). However, it uses the new AMD Congo platform with a dual-core Athlon X2 L310 (clock speed: 1.2GHz) CPU and ATi Radeon 3200 graphic chipset.

• 11.6-inch display
• 1366 x 768 resolution
• Draft-N WiFi, Bluetooth
• Battery: 5600 mAh (6-cell)

It runs Windows 7 and will start shipping on the same day as of the Windows 7 release date, October 22. Expect the price to be around 499 Euros (USD 720).

Commentary: So, is this a mini-notebook or a netbook? Gone are the days when we used to consider the netbooks as scaled down ‘weak’ versions of full-size notebooks. Now, many netbook manufactures are coming with ION or ION LE-powered netbooks, which pack a lot of muscle as compared to netbooks that came in early 2009. With the release of Acer Ferrari One, the netbooks will no longer be considered as weak.